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saɪsigh

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Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 1 vote

  1. sigh, suspirationnoun

    an utterance made by exhaling audibly

    Synonyms:
    suspiration

  2. sighverb

    a sound like a person sighing

    "she heard the sigh of the wind in the trees"

    Synonyms:
    suspiration

  3. sigh, suspireverb

    heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily

    "She sighed sadly"

    Synonyms:
    suspire, take a breath, breathe, respire

  4. sighverb

    utter with a sigh

    Synonyms:
    suspire

Matched Categories

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. sighnoun

    Synonyms:
    long breath

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. sighnoun

    Synonyms:
    suspiration

  2. sighverb

    Synonyms:
    suspire

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "sigh":

    slghs, sighs, exhales, breath

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#6080breath
#11701breathe
#13389sigh
#36832sighs
#169362exhales
#270425respire

How to use sigh in a sentence?

  1. Charles R. Swindoll:

    People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

  2. Alex Morgan:

    It’s so gratifying to feel like we can start to mend a relationship with U.S. Soccer that has been severed for so many years because of the discrimination that we faced, to finally get to this moment feels like we can almost sigh a breath of relief.

  3. Bryan Ma:

    Assuming that Google Maps is not really Google Maps and gets the license to sell to Huawei, that's a huge sigh of relief for Huawei.

  4. Dan Ives:

    Overall, the bulls are breathing a sigh of relief with these delivery numbers.

  5. Sam Stovall:

    Yellen's comments allowed investors to breathe a sigh of relief that Federal Reserve will not be raising rates in April.


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